Bug#981407: sysv-generator is really annoying with an eccessive verbosity

[Michael Biebl]

Am 02.02.21 um 10:11 schrieb Francesco P. Lovergine:

Well, the truly annoying thing is that it warns even for init scripts disabled, but never removed (sometimes on purpose, sometimes due to package errors). I discovered a few of them still around since years, and reduced

a bit the noisei by purging.

But isn't this a good thing, that it shows you that there is old cruft?

 For sure this system is up since 28th of

Jan and dmesg shows
only messages after 30th of Jan currently. So generally, at every restart
of services the syslog is populated with those warnings in good quantity.

Any system upgraded several times and/or used for development will present

tons of this warnings during its life cycle. I know upstream already refused to take in consideration the possibility of on/off that warns by option. At least, using debug priority would move those warns to a different log file in default configuration, not too bad.

Fwiw, I don't think either that an On/Off switch would be a good idea.

Assuming we remove the old SysV generator at some point, we do need to warn users in advance, so they can prepare. If we downgrade those messages to debug, I fear users will never see them and take appropriate steps.

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